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Nehru was dumfounded. It was he who was used to banging tables and making peremptory refusals. Taking a different tack, he accurately said that he was as much at fault as Menon and vaguely threatened to resign. Always before, such a threat had been sufficient to make the opposition crumble with piteous cries of 'Tanditji, don't leave us alone!" This time, one of the leaders said: "If you continue to follow Menon's policies, we are prepared to contemplate that possibility." Nehru was beaten and Menon thrown out of the Cabinet. Joining him in his exit...
...famous recent productions of Die Meistersinger-the one mounted by Wieland Wagner in Bayreuth in 1956-the tendency was to reduce realistic sets to a minimum. Last week's resplendent production,* with sets and costumes by Designer Robert O'Hearn, took a different tack-and was far more successful. The soaring stone columns and arches of St. Catherine's Church in Act I looked enduringly solid-a far cry from the standard productions in which they tend to flap and billow like a clothesline of wet wash. The steeply gabled gingerbread houses of Nürnberg...
Dropping his regular research to investigate, Dr. Rindner led a Raytheon task force in painstakingly devising a tiny bit of metal shaped like a thumb tack and mounting it so that its stem pressed on a transistor's sensitive spot. This device, smaller than a pinhead, performed as an excellent microphone. It can be made to transmit music faithfully, and can even pick up ultrasonic sounds to which the human ear does not respond...
Sophomore Tom Bilodeau entered the game for Harvard at this point and on the kick-off found out personally what was bothering the Harvard offense--poor blocking and lack of protection. Before he took more than four steps he was face to face with seven Holy Cross tack. lers...
...brief deviationist experiment with conventional contraception devices in 1957 brought disgrace to its government promoters, partly on ideological grounds, partly because the campaign made no impact on the Chinese people. Now, party dialecticians are trying a new propaganda tack-later marriage. The government lists all sorts of advantages: health, industrial efficiency, psychological adjustment, almost everything except the need to keep the birth rate down. Peking College Medical Professor Yeh Kung-shao spelled it all out explicitly in a recent issue of China Youth Daily. Wrote Yeh: "The ideal age for women [to marry] is from...